Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Crosscutting Concepts
Patterns
Knowledge
Students know:
- Locations of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, ocean floor structures, earthquakes, and volcanoes occur in patterns.
- Volcanoes and earthquakes occur in bands that are often along the boundaries between continents and oceans.
- Major mountain chains form inside continents or near their edges.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Organize data using graphical displays from maps of Earth's features.
- Articulate patterns that can be used as evidence to describe Earth's features on land and in the ocean using maps.
- Use logical reasoning based on the organized data to make sense of and describe the patterns in Earth's features.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Earth's features occur in patterns.
Vocabulary
- patterns
- data
- structures
- features
- topographical
- continental boundaries
- deep ocean trench
- ocean floor
- volcanoes
- mountains
- earthquakes
